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Re: [Xen-users] Using Xen as a jail for malicious code



* Mark Williamson:

>> I am beginning to write some open source programming contest software
>> (http://threec.berlios.de).  I am wondering if Xen would be a suitable
>> jail for arbitrary and anonymous code submitted for the judging
>> software.
>
> That's what it was originally created for: containment of arbitrary untrusted 
> code submitted to a Xenoserver (Xenoservers project described: 
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xeno/).

What about the rogue DMA problem mentioned in some of the papers?
Has this been addressed?

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